List of Muslim writers and poets

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This is a list of notable Muslim writers and poets.

Writers and poets

A

Arshadul Qadri (Indian)
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Indian)
Aamer Hussein (Pakistani)
Abbas el-Akkad (Egyptian)
Abdul Rahman Munif (Saudi)
Abdullahi dan Fodio (Nigerian)
Abdullah Khan (Indian)
Abdulah Sidran (Bosniak)
Abid Azad (Bangladeshi)
Abul Ala Maududi (Maulana Maududi) (Pakistani)
Abul Hasan (Bangladeshi)
Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (Persian)
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (Bangladeshi)
Abul Kalam Azad (Indian)
Abu Nuwas (Arab Persian)
Abu Tammam (Syrian Arab)
Abu Zafar Obaidullah (Bangladeshi)
Aga Shahid Ali (Kashmiri American)
Ahmad Ibn Arabshah (Syrian Arab)
Ahmed Ali (Pakistani)
Ahmed Sofa (Bangladesh)
Ahsan Habib (Bangladeshi)
Akbar S. Ahmed (Pakistani)
Ayad Akhtar (Pakistani American)
Akhtaruzzaman Elias (Bangladeshi)
Alaol (modern-day Bangladeshi)
Al-Hallaj (Persian Sufi)
Al-Hariri of Basra (Basra, Iraq)
Al-Mutanabbi
Al-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq)
Al Mahmud (Poet, Bangladesh)
Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistani)
Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (Indian)
Asma Gull Hasan (American)
Azizul Haque (Indian)

B

D

E

Enamul Karim Nirjhar (Bangladeshi)

F

G

G. Willow Wilson

H

I

J

K

Kabir (Indian Sufi)
Muhammad Mojlum Khan (Bangladesh-born British)
Kan Chun (also known as Mohamad Omar)
Kaykobad (Bangladesh)(also known as Kazem Ali Quereshi)
Kazi Kader Newaj (Bangladesh)
Kazi Nazrul Islam (India /Bangladesh)
Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi)
Khurram Murad (Pakistan)
Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijan)
Kyar Ba Nyein (Myanmar)

Jamilah Kolocotronis (America)

L

Leila Aboulela

M

N

O

Omar Khayyám
Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006)

R

S

Sa'adi
Saheb Qibla Fultali
Saffarzadeh, Tahereh
Safvet-beg Bašagić
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindh, Pakistan)
Shah Ahmad Shafi
Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bangladeshi)
Shamsur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
Shaheed Quaderi (Bangladeshi)
Shahnaz Bashir (Kashmir)
Shaikh Ayaz (Sindh, Pakistan)
U Shwe Yoe (a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.)
Sikdar Aminul Haq (Bangladeshi)
Soheib Bencheikh
Stephen Schwartz
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (British spoken word poet, writer, and speaker)
Sultan Bahoo (Sufi writer and poet from Punjab, Pakistan)
Sufi Barkat Ali (Punjab, Pakistan)
Syed Shamsul Huq (Bangladeshi)
Syed Waliullah

T

Taha Hussein (Egyptian)
Tariq Rahman (Pakistan)

U

* Usman dan Fodio (Nigerian)

Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Y

Z

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